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Architecture: 2006-2007 Thesis Topics
Architecture: 2006-2007 Thesis Topics
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Craftsmanshop
Reich, Jonathan W.
Williams, Barry L.
When architecture stops reminding people of their limitations and instead flows effortlessly with (and in turn, enhances) ones lifestyle, then
people will truly be able to live life.
Aftreth, Jacob John
Sutro Redux
Lucas, Michael A.
Architecture and the arts in pleasure and place. Oceanfront and Ruins of
the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California.
Aine, David Benjamin
HOPE+architecture [kenya]
Stannard, Sandra J.
Macdonald, Kent M.
Macdonald, Kent M.
Agri[culture]
Reich, Jonathan W.
Reich, Jonathan W.
Crotser, Charles E.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Updated: 5/2/07
Students
Thesis Topics
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Constant Transience
Reich, Jonathan W.
Macdonald, Kent M.
Rethinking the role of the modern sports stadium in revitalizing neglected urban landscapes: a new baseball park and shopping center for
Oakland, California.
Asada, Keith Cruz
[Q]bd
Roesling, Ralph J.
Re-Rail
Crotser, Charles E.
Macdonald, Kent M.
Williams, Barry L.
The Olympic Cycling Center will be a premier training facility for interaction of athletes at all levels as well as an exciting sporting venue for
community members seeking an active cycling lifestyle.
Blakeman, Brandon Ray
Urban Boundaries
Roesling, Ralph J.
Blurring the boundaries of observer and observed allows for the perpetuation of the voyeuristic nature of humans.
Blanco, Evelyn Jessica
Affordable Opportunities:
Latinos en su Tercera Edad en San Diego
Stannard, Sandra J.
Revitalizing Cayucos
Crotser, Charles E.
Lucas, Michael A.
Meditation on the body and enclosure from birth through recovered life.
Floating Dry Dock, San Francisco.
Bradbury, Christopher Robert
Crotser, Charles E.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Cal Poly
Students
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Inversion
Lange, Karen
An Agricultural Community
Crotser, Charles E.
Crotser, Charles E.
Connection
Roesling, Ralph J.
Lucas, Michael A.
Reich, Jonathan W.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Setting intentions of spurring social dialogue about the inter connectedness of human beings and the planet in the past, present, and future. In
the European conquest of North America, especially since the dawn of
the industrial age, humans have forgotten their connection to the place
that created us. This museum will attempt to provide a vision for the
future though an architectural experience merging nature, technology
and society.
Clemens, Bradley Allen
Williams, Barry L.
Library: Athenaeum
Roesling, Ralph J.
Stimulus
Roesling, Ralph J.
Dementia research and live in/day care facility in and in between two
buildings in downtown Los Angeles.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Cal Poly
Students
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Ambiance
Roesling, Ralph J.
Stannard, Sandra J.
Macdonald, Kent M.
Sustaining Viticulture
Lange, Karen
Macdonald, Kent M.
An ecological retreat at San Simeon investigates the relationships between building, landscape, and history.
Domingo, Arnel Espanto
Macdonald, Kent M.
Lucas, Michael A.
An Icon of Sport
Roesling, Ralph J.
Williams, Barry L.
Attempting to re-infuse life into this forgotten suburban center by introducing the mixed use model which studies order and invitation of space.
Edwards, Alison Jade
Crotser, Charles E.
Granite Facing
Lucas, Michael A.
Tectonics for detoxification and reintroduction of the haptic in architecture. Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and Watershed, Yosemite National Park.
Enz, Ryan Douglas
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Reich, Jonathan W.
Cal Poly
Students
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Fairman, Mark D
Stannard, Sandra J.
A cancer treatment center focusing on the power of the mind and body
as healers, mediated through the symbiotic design response between
building and nature.
Farr, Yara Maria
Synerscape
Reich, Jonathan W.
A proposal for olives - and the use of left over urban space at Um Tuba
southeast Jerusalem between the traditional Palestinian settlement of
Dur Bahir and the new Israeli settlement of Har Homa, under conditions created by conflict, including the so-called security fence, urban
enclaves, exclaves, the use of no-mans-land, the instrumentalization
of infrastructures, the juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban villages, with differing attitudes about - olives. The conflict
need not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits
ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban possibilities...
Fleming, Jennifer Nicole
Lucas, Michael A.
Urban and graffiti arts at the edge. Transitional spaces of children between families and cultural borders. Phoenix, Arizona.
Fosholt, Kristian Sanford
Reich, Jonathan W.
Evolution
Williams, Barry L.
Williams, Barry L.
Elemental
Lucas, Michael A.
Lange, Karen
A condensed city within a single building, using generative and organizational properties of noise to become both monstrous projector and vast
receptacle for Los Angeles.
Gaines, Kylie
Stannard, Sandra J.
An experiential journey highlighting the healing power of laughter, illustrated though contrasts of dark and light, joy and depression, social
interaction and solitude.
Gardner, Stephen Benjamin
A curios home at the nexus of the mountains and marshes of the eastern
Sierra Nevada near Mammoth.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Cal Poly
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Thesis Topics
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Decay, Hollywood
Lange, Karen
Stannard, Sandra J.
Crotser, Charles E.
Brown:2:Green
Crotser, Charles E.
Williams, Barry L.
Anomaly
Roesling, Ralph J.
REcognition
Williams, Barry L.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Hernandez-Herzstein, Kevin
Stannard, Sandra J.
Prototypical Residential Housing Design adopting Commercial Materials, Systems and Techniques including pre-fabrication, and other new
innovations not currently in use in the Housing sector.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Williams, Barry L.
Cal Poly
Students
Thesis Topics
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Hiser, Jennifer M
InStall New_Orleans
Lucas, Michael A.
Exploring an architecture of sustenance for the creative; a living infrastructure as reclamation. Ruins of the Lafitte Housing Projects, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Hornbeck, Carly A
Shelter
Reich, Jonathan W.
Connecting
Roesling, Ralph J.
Through the use of public spaces, urban areas can be connected and
expanded in a way that contributes to a more lively and healthy city.
Ibarra, Juan A
Crotser, Charles E.
Hive
Reich, Jonathan W.
Urban design proposal for lower State Street area of Santa Barbara
including putting a section of the 101 freeway under a lid to create new
urban spaces, for example artist live-work housing.
Iseri, David Satoru
Vomitorium, Sacramento
Lange, Karen
The vomitorium is a symbolic name. In short this is a hypothetical building that acts as a collected assemblage of many disparate systems held
in equilibrium. It is a sort of essay on the American condition, through
the medium of architecture. It by no means encompasses all aspects of
American life, but various aspects I currently find amusing. The vomitorium is building as a reaction to culture. It is not a melting pot of wonderful diversity, but a toilet, a container embracing a regurgitated poisonous
spew. It is designed to embrace and share the forces acting in it.
Jakus, Nathaniel Casimir
Lucas, Michael A.
Crotser, Charles E.
A new research center; a new community; a new image for an abandoned mining town in the Southern California high desert. This project
reclaims pristine desert land and proposes an innovative solution to a
community as part of the US Green Building Councils national design
competition.
Johnson, Karl Robert
CoZ!
Lucas, Michael A.
Stannard, Sandra J.
Stannard, Sandra J.
Students
Thesis Topics
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Lucas, Michael A.
Blues Machine
Lucas, Michael A.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Lange, Karen
Progressive Living
Williams, Barry L.
My mission is to restore, revive, and promote Asian and Asian-American heritage and culture in downtown Los Angeles. This nursing home
facility will promote cultural awareness and spiritual well being, while it
enhances community pride and interaction.
Krasovic, Caitlin Rose
sound[wave]
Roesling, Ralph J.
Lange, Karen
kampuchea
DiSanto, Thomas L.
reCONSIDER reNEW
Reich, Jonathan W.
Urban revitalization that renews the connection between the river and
the people of Santiago, Chile. A site adjacent to the Rio Mapocho offers
opportunity for connection of urban amenities, social space and housing
along the river edge. (ACSA / AISC Competition entry)
Lanning, Lanette Krystal
Re-Centering
Macdonald, Kent M.
Crotser, Charles E.
Urban Ore
Stannard, Sandra J.
Cal Poly
Students
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Macdonald, Kent M.
Cultivating Dignity
Stannard, Sandra J.
Reich, Jonathan W.
Design for the very large new math/science building at Cal Poly proposing a topographically rich, landscape integrated with mixed-use green
building.
Mckay, Rebecca Regina
Terminal re-Action
Reich, Jonathan W.
Proposal for a Ferry terminal and exhibit hall at (the former) Alameda Naval Air Station designed to provide social and cultural space for Alameda.
Mendez, George Edwin
Williams, Barry L.
Bringing three city borders into an area that will create a cultural complexity through housing, a music academy, and concert hall.
Menendian, Armen D
Break In
Roesling, Ralph J.
Stannard, Sandra J.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Impressions
Roesling, Ralph J.
Naked
Lange, Karen
A Dancing Void
Roesling, Ralph J.
How can the public re-inhabit a void under the freeway and at the same
time, stitch the missing context in the urban fabric?
Mock, Andrew Thomas
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Macdonald, Kent M.
Cal Poly
Students
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Moser, Christine
Stannard, Sandra J.
Stannard, Sandra J.
Stannard, Sandra J.
Cutting Through
Reich, Jonathan W.
Interpretive center and historic site interpretation at the old sutro Baths
site, San Francisco, influenced by land-art precedents.
Pantoja, Rodolfo Andres
Discovering Fun
Macdonald, Kent M.
Lucas, Michael A.
The nascence of a new heart for multiple/simultaneous works - incarnations of variously encompassing physical arts happening in/are phenomena of spaces (material and ever contemplated light). Chelsea, New York
City.
Peters, Sally Rachel
A Living Memorial
Lange, Karen
DiSanto, Thomas L.
This school will be a place to actively study modern dance and the translation of movement into other forms of art.
Petrie, Joshua Kenton
Lange, Karen
Move
Lange, Karen
Williams, Barry L.
LandEscape
Lucas, Michael A.
Cal Poly
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High School #9
Roesling, Ralph J.
Crotser, Charles E.
PULSE: club_lounge
Lucas, Michael A.
HOPE+architecture [kenya]
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Stannard, Sandra J.
Maquiladora
Lange, Karen
Redirected
Lange, Karen
From rapid train travel to city park, a high speed transit station in
Sacramento.
Sanchez, Patrick Wayne
Active Learning
Macdonald, Kent M.
A community center in South San Francisco attempts to unify a fragmented city by incorporating both educational and recreational programs
in a single facility.
Sanchi, Matthew Robert
In-Reaction
Macdonald, Kent M.
Lucas, Michael A.
ARTful Reintegration
Macdonald, Kent M.
Cal Poly
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Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
History Re-born
Macdonald, Kent M.
Macdonald, Kent M.
A conference center for Massai tribespeople and Christian missionaries poses the problem of how to create an architectural language for a
culture in transition.
Shamieh, Kristin Kathryn
Williams, Barry L.
The addition of a sustainable multi-use building in the heart of downtown San Jos reinvents the area as a more culturally diverse precedent
for further downtown redevelopment. I am proposing a development
with mixed-uses such as mixed-income living, lifestyle-oriented and
specialty retail, multi-cultural center, entertainment (small lounge/bar),
and public and private roof terrace gardens; I will also be creating a
node (plaza) for the public transit system which already exists on a
corner of the site.
Shea, Kersti Paula
Reclamation
Roesling, Ralph J.
Lange, Karen
Dimension of Community
Williams, Barry L.
Crotser, Charles E.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Center will be the vibrant social heart of the City
of Guadalupe and serve as the focal point for the citys identity, attracting
tourists and locals alike.
Spears, Lisa Noelle
Rest
Lange, Karen
Crotser, Charles E.
Lange, Karen
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Students
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Stannard, Sandra J.
Powers of Change
Reich, Jonathan W.
Adaptive re-use proposal for the Morro Bay power plant based on the
inherent value of the existing (gigantic) structure and detailed as-built
studies.
Strazzarino, Amy Marie
Williams, Barry L.
ac[I]d miN[e]d
Lucas, Michael A.
Regenerative degeneration: exploration of architecture and/as landscape through the exploitation of a commodity. Abandoned Silver Mine,
Paso Robles, California.
Tang, Chung Shen
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Investigating the history and idea of metabolism in Architecture; and trying to restore this concept back into the design of our living spaces.
Tang, Kirk Shih-Hai
Container of Hope
Macdonald, Kent M.
River Remediated
Reich, Jonathan W.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Lange, Karen
An elementary school integrating the education of blind, visually impaired and sighted children.
Turner, Jacob Robert
Symbiosis
Williams, Barry L.
Reich, Jonathan W.
Cal Poly
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Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Valadez, Elizabeth
Williams, Barry L.
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Crotser, Charles E.
Roesling, Ralph J.
Lange, Karen
Reuse of the old industrial Crystal Ice Building in Sacramento allows for
a center of culinary study anchored in an understanding of cultivation.
Vazquez, David
Reich, Jonathan W.
Beauty in imperfection
DiSanto, Thomas L.
Synergy
Roesling, Ralph J.
Williams, Barry L.
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Students
Thesis Topics
Faculty Advisors
Crotser, Charles E.
Macdonald, Kent M.
Crotser, Charles E.
Urban Ore
Stannard, Sandra J.
drifting scripts
Lucas, Michael A.
Architectural modulations of the modern nomad as explored via emerging processes and production. South of Market [SOMA], San Francisco.
Zerna, Angelica Jackeline
Stannard,Sandra
Cal Poly
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